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Are your good intentions creating a dysfunctional horse? Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Is the Horse Training building the horse's trust or creating a dysfunctional, fearful, anticipative equine?
Many horse enthusiasts struggle with finding the balance in how to work with the horse. In this horse learning video, Alternative Horsemanship the Remote Horse Coach discusses how the human's lack of clarity in their communication can leave the horse struggling and resorting to unwanted behaviors. This episode addresses the common horse rider's problem of passively interacting with the horse diminishing his willingness and try.
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Helping the Defensive Horse
Dear Sam: Horse Help Horsemanship Series
Helping the defensive horse
Watch on the Alternative Horsemanship YouTube Channel. New videos are posted every Friday.
Tips for Riding out, Building Confidence for the Timid Horse Rider
Tips for the Insecure or Timid Rider
What about building the rider's confidence for riding out?
Reactive Riding - Horse Help & Tips
Reactive Riding
When people sit down in that saddle their brain tends to focus solely on themselves. Instead, if they treated their horse-like they were "on the same team" and told the horse what the PLAN was ahead of time, the horse would have a better chance of offering the desired response toward the rider.
Horse Skills Tips - Misconceptions of a Circle
One of the most misused "techniques" I have found is how people present asking the horse to move around a circle.
Horse Behavior- After the session assessment
How often does your focus "leave" as you are nearing the end of a session with the horse? Mentally moving on to something else?
Horsemanship: Reviewing The Release
As with everything, there are many interpretations when it comes to the terminology associated with horses. I try to be clear and precise in the words that I'm offering, but there still can be a gray area in the human student's understanding. This often comes from their level of awareness, background, and unintentional anticipation/expectation of their mind "getting ahead" of wherever they are currently at with their horse.
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